Blackburn with Darwen Council is set to roll out a national plan to reduce youth crime.
The Council's community safety partnership successfully bid for £350,000 of Government funding to deliver several elements of the Youth Crime Action Plan.
The plan seeks to enforce and punish unacceptable behaviour but also offer support where it is most needed and better and earlier prevention.
Elements that will be rolled out in Blackburn and Darwen include giving Police and Council officers the authority to take young people from the streets at night to community centres or other safe places.
Their parents can then be asked to collect them, reminded about their responsibilities and given information about support services.
Young offenders will also be assessed at the earliest opportunity via youth offending team workers in police custody suites and after-school police patrols will be launched to tackle anti-social behaviour.
Intervention will also be offered to the families whose children are at greatest risk of serious offending and street-based teams will be created to tackle crime and disorder.
A total of £56.5 million of funding has been made available to 69 local authority areas for 2009-11.
The local Youth Task Force Sub Group will be responsible for taking the work forward.
Kevin Ruth, chair of the community safety partnership, said: “Behaviour that causes misery and suffering to others can not be tolerated and the plan sets clear consequences for those who overstep the boundaries.
“However, with this funding we will be able to improve the support we offer to young people and parents to deal with problems – spotting them early and intervening to stop them getting out of control.
“We know that the vast majority of young people are well behaved and it is the minority we really need to focus on by setting clear boundaries, but also offering help to those who stay on the right side of the line and make the effort to turn things around.”
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